Mucorales

Pin moulds at Jingera, NSW

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Identification history

Mucorales	28 Jun 2017	Heino
Mucorales	28 Jun 2017	Heino
Unverified	23 May 2017	CathB

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Not sure if this belongs in Fungi or Other Cryptogams. Substrate was possibly conifer cones of some sort, but hard to be sure. Seen in a couple of places along track.

3 comments

KenT wrote:

24 May 2017

This looks like a fungus in the order Mucorales in the division Zygomycota. What you can see here appears to be the asexual phase of reproduction with the formation of spore containing sporangia (the black dots) on the top of sporangiophores (the stalks) emerging from the mass of white hyphae.

triplett wrote:

5 Jul 2020

A mould which looks like this is extremely common in wet years at Woodlands Historic Park near Melbourne in Red Gum and Grey Box woodland. It grows exclusively on brown mushrooms - Cortinarious species I think.

triplett wrote:

5 Jul 2020

Also, you often see small insects stuck to the sporangia.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.481037 -35.652507
Places Jingera, NSW

Sighting information

101 - 1,000 Abundance
22 May 2017 11:46 AM Recorded on
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CathB Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Moulds Other fungi Fungi

Species information

Mucorales Scientific name
Pin moulds Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 949.4m Recorded at altitude
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